Senior Software Platform Engineer, Apple Pay

Apple Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Relocation assistance

Discounted Apple products

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. in New York City seeks a Senior Software Platform Engineer to design and build the internal developer platform used by Wallet, Payments and Commerce teams. You will own APIs, write production code in Go/Java/C++, and ensure the platform scales reliably across regions.

You will work on Kubernetes-native services, declarative provisioning, testing, on-call ownership, and AI-assisted development. The role emphasizes collaboration, high engineering standards, and privacy and security

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems.
• Proficient in Go, Java, Kotlin or C++ with strong API design and concurrency.
• A real testing practice with regression-focused tests.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud providers.
• Experience writing Kubernetes controllers or operators.
• Familiar with declarative configuration and IaC tools.
• Fluency with LLM-based development tooling and coding agents.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Kubernetes-native services, controllers and APIs in Go.
• Turn complex infrastructure provisioning into simple declarative APIs.
• Make the platform fast and predictable at scale across regions.
• Raise the engineering bar through testing and code reviews.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and implement permanent fixes.
• Work AI-forward with LLM-based tooling and coding agents.

Skills

Go

Java

Kotlin

C++

API design

Concurrency

Testing

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Communication

On-call support

Tools

Kubernetes controllers

Terraform

Helm

Jsonnet

Kustomize

Pkl

CUE

GitOps

Observability tooling

Job description

Senior Software Platform Engineer, Apple Pay

New York City, New York, United States Software and Services

We build and operate the internal developer platform used by every engineering team in the Wallet, Payments and Commerce organization. The platform covers the full software development lifecycle, from scaffolding a new service through building and releasing it, provisioning the cloud infrastructure and data stores it depends on, deploying it across multiple regions, and giving teams the observability and operational tooling they need to run it in production.As demand for these services grows, we are expanding the team that builds the platform beneath them. We work under strict privacy, security and compliance requirements, and we hold a high bar for engineering quality. The platform exists so teams can build and ship new products faster and more reliably than they could on their own.

This is a software engineering role on the team that builds the platform itself. The primary output is design and code. You will design the APIs, write the production code behind them, and own the performance and correctness of systems that engineering teams across the organization depend on daily.

• Design and build Kubernetes-native services, controllers and APIs in Go, owning each subsystem from design review through production operation.
• Turn complex infrastructure provisioning into simple declarative APIs, so application teams can describe what they need without having to manage the underlying complexity themselves.
• Make the platform fast and predictable at scale, and diagnose the performance and correctness problems that surface there, from hot loops and unbounded work queues to memory growth and convergence failures across regions.
• Raise the engineering bar through meaningful test coverage, code review that improves designs rather than syntax, and the observability you need to run what you build.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the systems you own, and turn each incident into a permanent fix or a guardrail rather than a runbook entry.
• Work AI-forward by using coding agents and LLM-based tooling as a normal part of development, and own the correctness of what you ship regardless of what drafted it.

• 6+ years building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems.
• Strong programming ability in Go, or in Java, Kotlin, C++ or a comparable statically typed language, with solid fundamentals in API design, concurrency and error handling.
• A real testing practice. You write tests that would catch a regression rather than tests that restate the implementation.
• Distributed systems experience covering idempotency, eventual consistency, retries and partial failure, plus practical performance work where you profiled something and measured the fix.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and extensive cloud experience with at least one of the major cloud providers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including design documents and incident write-ups that other engineers can act on.

• Experience writing Kubernetes controllers or operators in production, including custom resource design and schema versioning.
• Experience with declarative configuration and templating systems such as Pkl, CUE, Jsonnet, Kustomize or Helm, or with infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• Extended experience in at least one of: GitOps and progressive delivery, developer platforms and internal tooling, multi-region and disaster recovery, observability, or regulated environments such as PCI.
• Fluency with coding agents and LLM-based development tooling, and judgment about when to trust their output.
• Ability to coach and mentor other ICs, and to lead a design review to a decision.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $184,700 and $324,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits
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